Hope you're all having a Great Day! It is the day of the Lord. It is his birthday. Have you given him anything? What would he like from you? What a question to ponder. For me, maybe to be a little more patient (in ALL things.) A bit more loving (I'm a nonhugger and need to GET OVER IT!) A bit more cleaning and organizing... well, I better stop there, that should give me enough to work on for the new year.
A side note: I hate to waste things. AND I always seem to waste food/candy given to me this time of year. So I've thought of some of the top things given to me by neighbors and some of the bottom things given to me this year.
Top of the list:
1) Sprite and Popcorn - because you can use them whenever you want and they store VERY well for a month or so for whenever you are in the mood. (Plus I gave these out this year, so they HAVE to be high on the list!)
2) The home-made orange rolls - made so light and fluffy that you could eat them anytime day or night and they were all gone in a matter of minutes (still waiting on the recipe).
3) Apple Pie Filling in a canned jar (or anything canned that can be used later). Again I wouldn't want to be forced to eat something that I didn't want right away. This could last for months and still be good! I LOVE APPLE PIE, but may not want to make it over the holidays.
Bottom of the list:
Bottom of the List
1st Worst: Sugar cookies with jam in them. A neighbor gives this EVERY year, and they are nasty. She is a very sweet person, but I even tried to give them away to volleyball friend's kids, but even they said the jam in the middle was Terrible! Great Lady, bad treat. How to tell them without hurting feeling... I can't think of any, so if you know them, I said NOTHING! (say nothing like Shultz in Hogan's Heroes.)
2nd worst: Hard Rice Krispie Treats. Got some from a neighbor that were nastier than the ones my daughter had made a week before in school that she left in her backpack. I think my dogs could use them to shine their teeth with. I'm thinking her kids made them. Hmmmmm...
3rd worst: crackers and dip - Now I have to be in the mood for this. I wasn't when we first got them, so they sat on the table for 2-4 days, who knows? I was finally in the mood for them yesterday, but the crackers had gone soft. Who knew that if you left the dip with the crackers that the crackers would go soft. Oops... lesson learned. Wonder if I will remember it for next year.
Anyway, again these are wonderful people. I hate wasting food, but what else can you do? Oh, I have some dark bananas and better get to making banana bread. You all have a fantastic day!
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